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Carlisle Library : Map 133

Map, hand coloured lithograph, Whitehaven and Workington, proposed new boundaries, scale about 2 inches to 1 mile, by Captain Robert K Dawson, lithographed by R Barker for Josiah Nethercliff, 54 Leicester Square, London, about 1832.
Drawn for the Reform Act 1832.
The table of symbols has - 'Explanations / Proposed Boundary of Whitehaven ... Red / Proposed Boundary of Workington ... Purple / Boundaries of Parishes and Townships ... Brown Rivers ... Blue'
   Dawson 1830s
map feature:- table of symbols & north point & up is N & scale line & sea plain & coast line & coast tinted & lighthouses & harbours & rivers & woods & settlements & roads & electoral data (parish, township and town boundaries)
inscription:- printed upper centre
WHITEHAVEN
inscription:- printed lower right
Robt. K. Dawson / Lieut. R.E.
inscription:- printed lower right near scale line
R. Barker for J. Nethercliff.
inscription:- printed with scale line
Scale, 2 inches to a Mile
scale line:- 1+1 miles = 110.4 mm
wxh, sheet:- 43.5x59.5cm
wxh, map:- 38x59.5cm
scale:- 1 to 21000 ? (1 to 21106 from scale line, assuming a statute mile)